March 2022
Spring News at
Jane Brucker Studio
Only What We Love:
Understanding Materials as a Shared Narrative
Online Lecture recording available below
Jane Brucker and Dr. Jeremy Wasser
Trier University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule Trier)
Campus for Design + Art
The lecture is part of In the Nature of Materials, a series of lectures on sustainability and responds to Trier University’s demand for ”a rethink, the use of new materials or the rediscovery of old techniques.”
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On view until April 2nd:
Jane Brucker in the
Pyramid Room
Bouquet by Jane Brucker, 2022, heirloom vase with heirloom fabric, glass, wood, buttons and Biological Clock, 1996, wooden breadboard with buttons, nail files, safety pins. (on view at Maloof Foundation).
Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation — 5131 Carnelian St, Alta Loma, CA 91701
The Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts is a member of the Historic Artists' Homes and Studios program (HAHS) of the National Trust for Preservation.
Jane Brucker will be showing a series of sculptural works installed in the Pyramid Room at the Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation. Included in the exhibition are three chairs using painted and fused glass elements from her monumental work, Fragile Thoughts, completed in 2018. The work is a tribute to Elizabeth Milbank Anderson, an early twentieth century philanthropist who championed healthcare, education, women’s issues and the arts, and who spent her summer summers in California, attracted to its healthy climate. The installation Objects for Sam’s Desk is a set of seven works culled from Brucker’s oeuvre and chosen by Brucker for their reference to the domestic setting of the Maloof. Finally, Bouquet is an ongoing installation project that begins with an antique vase owned (and broken) by Brucker’s grandmother and repaired by her grandfather. Emerging from a collection of vessels, containers and vases are changing arrangements that respond to the setting. In this case, the two large niche windows of the pyramid room and a third wooden shelf built-in. In all of the works presented, Brucker uses heirloom elements to construct meditations on the nature of relationship, home and domesticity.
Sam Maloof is acknowledged as one of the finest woodworkers of our time. As a leader of the California modern arts movement, he designed and produced furniture infused with profound artistic vision for more than half a century until his death in 2009. Central to Sam’s work and life is the sprawling hand-built residence and adjoining woodshop. Nestled in a lemon grove near the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California, the residence is filled with Maloof furniture and many examples of 20th Century American arts and crafts.
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On View
Left: LOST installation at San Diego International Airport.
Photograph by Joey Herring, edited by Tahnee Corea.
Right: LOST (detail) by Jane Brucker. Photograph by Brian Forrest.
Jane Brucker’s LOST — in Make Yourself at Home Exhibition
San Diego International Airport — 3225 N Harbor Dr, San Diego, CA 92101
located in Terminal 2 West, Post-Security, Gate 35
The exhibition will be up through at least mid-May with the possibility
of an extended view time.
To inquire about viewing: studio@janebrucker.com
On two monumental pedestals, 388 cast bronze and brass tiny objects make up the installation, LOST. Brucker uses lost-wax jewelry techniques to cast in bronze, white bronze and brass objects such as preserved buttons, a handcrafted millinery flower, puzzle pieces, misplaced keys, coins and containers of makeup. LOST evokes thoughts about loss throughout life—from baby teeth to relationships—and the entire collection prompts us to consider what we leave behind when we move or die.
Make Yourself at Home features 16 distinct exhibitors whose artwork and collections explore how the concept of home differs for each person and shapes our memories, identities, and sense of belonging in an increasingly nomadic world. Artists rely on the motif of home to draw connections between personal histories, and timely political and social themes including immigration, homelessness, urban planning, race, and gender.
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More from Jane Brucker Studio…
Views from Jane Brucker Studio in Claremont,CA.
Left: Lemon tree; Right: Spring in the raised bed garden.
Studio Views
We are continuing to create a space for work and shared conversation in our home and studio space in Claremont’s Russian Village, a unique architectural neighborhood directly east of Los Angeles. Renovations on the studio are now complete and we would be pleased to welcome you to the studio. May spring’s renewal be a highlight for you all-near and far.
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